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Author:   J. Lovell ,  Y. Rowan
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 20.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.089kg
ISBN:  

9781842179932

ISBN 10:   1842179934
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic (Yorke M. Rowan and Jaimie L. Lovell) 2. Chalcolithic Culture History: Ghassulian and Other Entities in the Southern Levant (Isaac Gilead) 3. Ghrubba: Ware or Culture (Zeidan Kafafi) 4. Changes in Material Culture at Late Neolithic Tabaqat al-Bûma, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan (Edward B. Banning, Kevin Gibbs and Seiji Kadowaki) 5. Continuity and Change – Cultural Transmission in the Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age I: A View from Early Modi’in, a Late Prehistoric Site in Central Israel (Edwin C. M. van den Brink) 6. Desert Chronologies and Periodization Systems (Steven A. Rosen) 7. Newly Discovered Burials of the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age I in Southern Canaan – Evidence of Cultural Continuity? (Amir Golani and Yossi Nagar) 8. Societies in Transition: Contextualizing Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho (Nils Anfinset, Hamdan Taha, Mohammed al-Zawahra and Jehad Yasine) 9. A Techno-Petrographic Approach for Defining Cultural Phases and Communities: Explaining the Variability of Abu Hamid (Jordan Valley) Early 5th Millennium cal. BC Ceramic Assemblage (Valentine Roux, Marie-Agnès Courty, Geneviève Dollfus and Jaimie Lovell) 10. Developmental Trends in Chalcolithic Copper Metallurgy: A Radiometric Perspective Changed the World (Aaron N. Shugar and Christopher J. Gohm) 11. Canaanean Blades in Chalcolithic Contexts of the Southern Levant? (Ianir Milevski, Peter Fabian and Ofer Marder) 12. The Transition from Chalcolithic to EB Iin the Southern Levant: A‘Lost Horizon’ Slowly Revealed (Eliot Braun)

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